I'm tired of kitties on my bed...

[Tonya]

Originally posted by RICHARD
I used to pick up my pillow and blanket and slept on the couch......

Haha, I should try that.

You all are right...I can't have the best of both worlds. I'd miss them if I didn't have them in bed. It just gets frustrating sometimes. The past few nights that I've had Sarah in my bed, the cats have been quieter. I think that they don't want to wake her because then she'll want to play with them. hehe.

[catnapper]

We have a Full Sized bed and drool over the thought of someday owning a King (heck, we'd settle for a Queen) but we somehow manage to share it with two cats. I sleep like the dead, so I never have a clue what/who shares my bed and hubby usually is the one who does the weird contortions!

But we also have a big armchair in our room that both cats love to sleep in. In fact, Allen will often kick me out of it if I'm sitting in it too late at night. Is there a way for you to add a nice comfy, cozy chair or bench in the room for the cats? We'd be having more bed fights if it wasn't for this chair.

[Logan]

Oh, Tonya, I feel your pain. Butter is a quite a problem during the night, wanting to come in and out, and short of locking him in the garage (Scott's answer for the problem), I just deal with it. He bangs on the vertical blinds when he wants out, and climbs the screen on the slider when he wants in, and I wake up constantly! I would say it is a minimum of 3 times every night, if not more. I'm a poor sleeper, anyway, like you, but if we "lock him out", he bangs on our door and shreds the carpet outside the door. Usually, he can open the door on his own, anyway. Our only salvation is when Elizabeth, Scott's daughter, is here. He goes to bed with her and he can't open her door, and she doesn't hear him if he tries to wake her!!!! LOL!!! I sure wish Elizabeth was here more often.

[Lallypop11]

I feel honored when one of the cats want to sleep with me, it doesn't happen very often when they want to cuddle in the middle of the night and it's usually just Bubby. Normally Bubby sleeps on top of the cat tree, Priss on the end of the bed or on Daddy and I don't know where Lucky usually sleeps, he ends up on the end of the bed a lot, but not usually at the same time as Priss. I would suggest putting a big cat tree in your bedroom to lure some of the playing to it. We have a 5 footer in there and they love to sleep on that and watch over us.

When Bubby does cuddle me, it is so great, he hugs my head and I put my face in his chest, it's like he's human, it's SO sweet. He's the only one that cuddles like that with me and Lucky comes by several times a week purring like a motorboat and wanting to suck on our ears or hands, LOL. I hide under the covers sometimes, LOL. And Priss directs all her attention to her Daddy, so she doesn't bother me. She kneads his belly at all hours of the night and meows at him to let her under the covers and sleeps on his belly, but he doesn't seem to mind. The only time it's bad is when they bring their toy mice on the bed and start batting them around, now THAT is annoying. I also suggest keeping a spraybottle on the bedside table and spray at them when they start getting wild. Good luck!